Vetro Energy is a Singapore and Houston, Texas–based operating and management company with

Rezart Taçi Rezart Taçi is an Albanian businessman who is best known for being the founder and CEO of Taçi Oil. Biography Rezart Taçi was born and raised in Tirana, Albania. In 1998, he began a career in the trading industry of finished oil products wher ...

as its majority shareholder. Vetro Energy targets upstream oil & gas investments worldwide. In October 2012, Vetro Energy bid to privatize the

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state-owned oil company

Albpetrol Albpetrol is an Albanian upstream petroleum production and marketing company, which also monitors state petroleum agreements in Albania. Its stock is owned by the Albanian state. The company is headquartered in Patos and has a representative offi ...

Albpetrol acquisition

On October 3, 2012, the Albania government announced, Vetro Energy won the bid for the privatization of Albpetrol, which would have given it the right to use the Albanian state-owned oil firm for the next 25 years. Vetro's bid of €850 million ($1.1 billion) for Albpetrol was rated 97.7 points by Albania's U.S. consultancy,

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. Other bids included offers from China's Win Business Bright Oil, and Canada's Bankers Petroleum. After winning the bid to buy Albpetrol,

announced on November 22, 2012, Vetro Energy had completed the financing of €850 million to finance the transaction. The deal was subsequently cancelled by the Albanian government after Vetro Energy failed to pay the initial payment.

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